Technology

David Payne worked as print journalist for 10 years on local newspapers and on healthcare titles. In 2000 he joined a medical dotcom start-up and then joined the newly formed Food Standards Agency to establish its online presence as the UK’s most trusted source of information and advice about food safety and nutrition. He joined BMJ Group in 2008 to edit its flagship online title bmj.com. David leads a lively and talented team responsible for BMJ blogs, podcasts, videos, and apps. In 2011 the BMJ moved its site (including an online archive dating back to 1840) to the Drupal open source platform. This was a co-development with HighWire press.

Todd McGee was one of the founding members of the HighWire team in 1995. At the time he was working at Stanford on a postdoctoral fellowship in Biology but was instrumental in setting the information architecture and functions of the JBC, the first online journal in the biological sciences. Todd joined HighWire as an employee in 1997 and has been HighWire’s Technical Project Manager for publisher web sites for The New England Journal of Medicine, The Oxford English Dictionary, Sage Journals Online and other high impact projects.

Currently Todd is the Assistant Director for Systems Applications and is the manager of HighWire’s Drupal Team and iOS/Android Mobile App teams. In 2011-2012 Todd led the HighWire effort to co-develop a new site for the BMJ in a then-unique co-development effort to relaunch the journal site using Drupal as the front end with unrestricted publisher control over all aspects of the front-end site.